Fluoroketone

Pubhcations have described the use of HFPO to prepare acyl fluorides (53), fluoroketones (54), fluorinated heterocycles (55), as well as serving as a source of difluorocarbene for the synthesis of numerous cycHc and acycHc compounds (56). The isomerization of HFPO to hexafluoroacetone by hydrogen fluoride has been used as part of a one-pot synthesis of bisphenol AF (57). HFPO has been used as the starting material for the preparation of optically active perfluorinated acids (58). The nmr spectmm of HFPO is given in Reference 59. The molecular stmcture of HFPO has been deterrnined by gas-phase electron diffraction (13). 

Diazoketones [57] and esters [5S] react with hydrogen fluoride in organic solvents to give a-fluoroketones or esters, pyndinium poly(hydrogen fluoride) offers a convenient medium for the reaction (equation 13) [9]... 

Nitrosyl fluoride reacts with steroidal olefins to give, ultimately, a-fluo-roketones [131], with steroidal vinyl lluorides, the reaction provides a,a di fluoroketones from intermediate nitroimines [197] (equation 34)... 

This topic has been reviewed [2, pp 94, 100-111, 130-134] All of the standard approaches to the synthesis of a compound like methyl 2-fluorostearate from methyl 2-bromostearate result mall yield of the 2-fluoro ester and the unsaturated esters. Although silver fluoride is not a new reagent, its use moist in wet acetonitrile to convert methyl 2-bromostearate to its fluoro ester is a departure from the traditional set of anhydrous conditions (Procedure 6, p 194) [71] In contrast, silver tetrafluoroborate converts a-chloroketones to their respective fluoroketones under anhydrous conditions. The displacement of less activated halogen groups by silver tetrafluoroborate to form their respective fluorides is novel Although silver tetrafluoroborate could not be used to convert an aliphatic terminal dichloromethyl or trichloromethyl group to its corresponding fluoro derivative, it is an effective fluorine source in other situations [72] (Table 8)... 

Diazoalkanes react with ethyl fluoroformate [S7j and acyl fluorides [87, 55] to give ethyl ot-fluorocarboxylates and ot-fluoroketones, respectively (equation 22) Table 7 lists examples of hydrofluorination [6. 83, 89] and geminal difluori-nation [90] of aryldiazomethanes... 

Photochemically induced reduction of alkyl perfluoro carboxylates in hexa-methylphosphoramide (FfMPA) can replace one, two, or (in the case of tn-fluoroacetate) three a-fluonne atoms with hydrogen [7, S] (equation 5) Chlorine-containing fluorocarboxylates preferentially lose a-chlorme and may even lose P-chlorinc in preference to a fluonne [9] (equation 6) Cyclic a-fluoroketones are also defluonnated photochemically [10] (equation 7)... 

FYedictably, fluoroketones undergo olefination reactions with more reactive arsonium ylides [35] (equation 28). 

The more reactive fluoroketones also react with reagents prepared by the action of carbon tetrachloride on a tnalkylphosphine to form a vinyl phosphine oxide [id] (equation 29)... 

Reactions of Organic Fluorine Compounds Table 14. Reactions of Fluoroketones with Nucleophiles... 

Fluormation ot carbon adjacent to heteroatoms invariably increases lipophili-city, as does fluormation of double bonds (Table 10), but a-fluormation of alipliatic carbonyl groups is an exception a-Fluoroketones or aldehydes that form stable... 

Fluorination of an enamine, enol ether, or enol acetate with CF3OF gave 60-70% yields of fluoroketone (708). Bromination of an endiamine gave the bis-imonium salt (647). 

As with i -substituted allyl alcohols, 2,i -substituted allyl alcohols are epoxidized in excellent enantioselectivity. Examples of AE reactions of this class of substrate are shown below. Epoxide 23 was utilized to prepare chiral allene oxides, which were ring opened with TBAF to provide chiral a-fluoroketones. Epoxide 24 was used to prepare 5,8-disubstituted indolizidines and epoxide 25 was utilized in the formal synthesis of macrosphelide A. Epoxide 26 represents an AE reaction on the very electron deficient 2-cyanoallylic alcohols and epoxide 27 was an intermediate in the total synthesis of (+)-varantmycin. 

Typical proton and carbon chemical shift and coupling constant data for a-fluoroketones and aldehydes are given in Scheme 3.32, with data for esters being given in Scheme 3.33. 

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